People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Want Memorial Day Sacred. [ARTICLE]

Want Memorial Day Sacred.

Lancaster, Pa., May 7.—A convention of representatives of the Grand Army posts of Lancaster county was held yesterday and a series of resolutions adopt-, ed condemning the desecration of Memorial day by base ball games, picnics and excursions, and appealing to patriotic citizens to discourage the practices, to the. end that the day may be preserved for the purpose intended by Its Illustrious founder.